I have installed both tesseract:x64-windows and tesseract:x64-windows-static via vcpkg. In my Visual Studio project, I can #include <tesseract/baseapi.h> and it will automagically compile but I have no idea whether the static or dynamic version of the library is being linked and I also have no idea how to switch between them. What setting lets me see / change that?
For VS integration you could try out PR https://github.com/microsoft/vcpkg/pull/4361 or just set the MSBuild property VcpkgTriplet according to:
https://github.com/microsoft/vcpkg/blob/master/docs/users/buildsystems/msbuild-integration.md